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Said Mohammed Ali Shah chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

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On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order

Court order

A court order is an official proclamation by a judge that defines the legal relationships between the parties to a hearing, a trial, an appeal or other court proceedings. Such ruling requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case...

 from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 published a twenty-six page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board

Administrative Review Board

The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

 hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo

Summary of Evidence (ARB)

Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...

 was prepared for
Mohammed Ali Shah Shayed's
Administrative Review Board, on 20 December 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Shah chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

Enemy Combatant election form

Said Mohammed Ali Shah's Assisting Military Officer reported on the Enemy Combatant election form he completed during his initial interview with him. They met on December 21, 2005 and December 22, 2005 for one hundred minutes and for ninety minutes. He described Said Mohammed Ali Shah as calm and cooperative.

The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.
The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his transfer on January 11, 2006.

Return to Afghanistan

The Washington Post reports that
Ali Shah
was one of sixteen detainees returned to Afghanistan in early October 2006.
They were held for several days by Afghan authorities before they were released on October 12, 2006.

Guantanamo medical records

On 16 March 2007 the Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 published medical records for the captives.
According to those records Mohammed Ali Shah was 68 inches tall and his weight was recorded 42 times between November 2003 and October 2006, ranging from 154 to 184 pounds.

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